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All the world loves a glover

To put on a pair of these would take 20 minutes, lots of french chalk and a maid

by Sandra Lawrence

January 11 2003, 12:00am, The Times

I DON’T consider myself obsessive so I was shocked when, in an idle moment recently, I realised I was the proud owner of 76 pairs of evening gloves.

Evening gloves conjure up the opulence of a bygone era in the same way as tiaras and opera glasses — an obvious glamour that we have somehow forgotten how to achieve (I do try, see picture above). These days we get to dress up once, maybe twice a year, and we seem to think that if we stick a pair of long black Lycra gloves with anything it will add instant allure. But getting it wrong can be fatal. Long evening gloves with a mini-dress, for example, suggest Bet Lynch rather than Bette Davis.